I have not spoken with staff on this issue but I believe that I can correctly state what it means.

For example, the last few years we have had large spring Chinook runs, but there will likely be a time when those runs have harvestable numbers, but not enough fish to allow the whole fleet to fish. This is a way reducing the participation in the fishery so that some of the netters can get the allotted commercial allocation.

This does not increase the allocation, the allocation decisions are made separate of this. If anything this is in response to recognition that the net fleet is not always going to have enough fish available to them for a full fleet fishery, either because the runs are poor or because of the sport allocation.

On the "Specific recreational emphasis action", the way this reads at the top is that a "Specific recreational emphasis action" is one reason that the department would not be able to authorize a full fleet net fishery. While unlikely at this point, the commission could declare Spring Chinook as a "recreational species", meaning that recreational users get a large allocation and the commercials get what was left over. It would likely not make sense to send a couple hundred gill net boats out for such a small allocation. There has been that action before. In Puget Sound Chinook and Coho are considered a recreational species per the North of Falcon policy.